Radiator mounting



,Adg. 4, .1931; L. T. WARD RAD IATO R MOUNTING Filed Oct. 18, 1929 22 7 1 NTOR: Lawrence mm, BY I ATTORNEYS.

WITNESSES Patented Aug. 4, 1931 STATES PATENT orFics LAWRENCE T. WARD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO DAVID LUPTONS SONS COMPANY, OF PHILADEEPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A. CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA RADIATOR MOUNTING Application filed October 18, 1929. Serial No. 400,470.

My invention relates to radiator mounting, and more particularly to the moimting of radiators in front of or beneath windows. I aim to provide simple and convenient support for radiators in such locations.

Various advantages that can be realized in connection with the invention will appear from the description hereinafter of a selected and preferred form of embodiment.

In the drawings, Fig. I is a fragmentary inside View of a window (in its masonry or concrete setting) and of radiator suspended under and in front of said window, in accordance with my invention.

Fig. II shows a horizontal section and plan view taken as indicated by the line and arrows II-II in Fig. I.

Fig. III showsa vertical section at right angles to Figs. I and II, taken as indicated by the line and arrows TIL-III in Fig. II; and,

Fig. IV shows a fragmentary section through a lower corner of the window frame and its setting, taken as indicated by the line and arrows IVIV in Fig. II.

The drawings show a window frame of hollow sheet metal construction, set into a wall 7 (of masonry or concrete) in the usual way. As shown in Figs. I and II, the hollow tubular jambs 8, 8, extend down into the corners of the window opening, across the ends of the hollow sheet metal sill 9. As a matter of appearance, however, the inner vertical wall 10 of the sill 9 that shows inside the building may extend clear across the window opening to the outer corners of the frame; and the adjacent horizontal sill portion 11 and stepped sill portion 12 may also extend across the lower ends of the hollow jambs 8, 8 to their backs or outer walls 13, 13, and abut against said back walls 13, 13 and be secured to them. In the jambs 8, 8 are shown horizontal rectangular plates 14:, 14, above the sill portions 12, 12, that serve to sustain the amb walls against collapse inward.

In front of and below the window is shown an ordinary sectional radiator 15 supported by brackets 16, 16 whose hooks 17, 17 exp tend and engage between the sections. The brackets 16, 16 rest against the inside of the wall 7, and their upper ends have hooks 18, 18 that hook over a flange 19 on a transverse supporting bar 20, here shown as of T-section (Fig. III). This bar 20 is attached to the window frame jambs 8, 8, by means of bolts 21, 21 that take through inturned flanges or ears 22, 22 on the outer jamb walls or backs 13, l3,the jamb backs 13, 13 extending down below the sill 9, as already explainedfor this purpose. Thus the bar 20 serves as a rigid suspension for the radiator brackets 16, 16, altogether independent of the sill 9, and the support of the radiator 15 does not impose any stress on the sill 9,which might tend to distort the sill.

As shown in Figs. I, III and IV, the bar 20 is altogether below the inner portion 10 of the sill 9, with a slot 23 between just wide enough to accommodate the bracket hooks 18, 18, but too narrow to allow the latter to be disengaged from the flange 19. However, the f flange 19 may be cut away at 24, 2 1, at either end of the bar 20, to permit insertion or withdrawal of the bracket hooks 18, 18. These openings 24, 24 also allow the bar 20 to be placed and bolted fast after the window frame has been set in the wall 7, if this should be desirable for any reason.

It will be seen that once the brackets 16, 16 have been put in place and the radiator 15 hung on them, they are virtually locked against any possibility of removal while said radiator remains. At the same time, they and the radiator 15 can be slid along the flange 19, either way, to facilitate coupling of said radiator to its steam or water pipe connections.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. The combination with a window frame, of a separate transverse radiator suspension bar below the window sill attached to the jambs of said frame.

2. The combination of a. Window frame with downward extensions of its jarnbs below the window sill, and a transverse radiator sus pension bar attached to said ambs independently of the sill.

3. The combination of a window frame with hollow sheet metal 1' ainbs, flanges on the outer walls 01' backs of said jambs, and a transverse radiator suspension bar secured to said flanges.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this 28th day of September, 1929.

LAWRENCE T. VAR'D. 

